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Thanks Alan, I try.

Further reading in case anyone is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpsychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_effects_of_Int...

Now, a whole other realm of the insidious part of the internet is online advertising. Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil.", I still think Google...

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So, you are equating the two here? If so, then what does that mean?

Here's the full study in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-w

Nope, no disappointment. DMT was found in the neocortex and hippocampus, not exclusive to the pineal gland, which makes the role of DMT in the brain a...

Tiff needs a cheerleader! You can do it Tiff!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/labblog.uofmhealth.org/lab-report/mystical-psychedelic-compound-found-normal-brains%3famp

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I talked about this with a friend economist, and the conclusion we arrived at is that prostitutes will become a highly demanded good in our post-AI fu...

This is a very tricky situation, as if he was goading you into conforming into his image of his previous significant other. But at the same time it's ...

Hi, I think you are kind and good hearted. I would be careful for being used as a template onto which another might project their desires and wishes o...

So, I think I finally found something that will pin my father down in court. Under US law, you are required to report earnings, property, and assets h...

Scary what these primal urges can do to a person or in what trouble they can land him or her in. Hence, why I chose a life of celibacy.

All boils down to a matter of willpower, which I have analyzed endlessly. People demand that the world change them, and in this sentiment, weakness is...

Nagel, Quine, Pinker, Chomsky just off the top of my head.

That's a bitter pill to swallow. There are countless ways to get into and out of depression. I admire the folk that is stuck in between and manages wi...

The ad populum fallacy sounds like something a rationalist or any person with authoritarian tendencies might advocate. It's a topic worthy issue, as t...

Yeah; but, if we take the summum bonum of all net preferences and tastes, then for interpersonal relations, some consensus can be derived. And, this i...

To what degree can reason influence emotions? I'm aware of higher brain functions ability to suppress impulses and direct behavior. Yet, to what exten...

Here's what Wikipedia says: And, you say here: So, this leads me to believe that you either don't believe in ought statements or that you stipulativel...

So, does adding that it is a preference, make this a normative claim for how people should behave or a positive statement?

Well, you did say that foundational emotivist stances outline "how people should behave". Not, that they do in a certain way. Which led me to conclude...

Not sure if this is correct. Hume outlined the is-ought problem, have you been able to overcome it?

I think you are right here. It is some phobia. I'm not sure what exactly a phobia of what. I think it has to do with wanting to live a life of ease wi...

So, you are talking about coping here, I think. Yes, I suppose this is the only way to live with depression. I have started numerous threads about dep...

Sorry to get back to your post so late, as I got caught up in a dialogue with I like sushi. From my posting and knowledge hereabouts, I understand the...

Not sure about that. I mean, every country needs law enforcement officials. It's just that, in general, people get along pretty well with each other w...

I think so. Before I posted this topic I was waffling over the idea as to whether to name the topic "Minimalism in Ethics" or the current title. Well,...

Well, quoting from that thread you explicitly say: It's my understanding that the difference between the two is not due to innate differences, given t...

See my previous comment. I believe we can explore the issue further by the (normative?) distinction you are drawing between the "ethical" and "moral"....

Ok, I re-read that awesome thread again, and it seems to me that at the same time you're drawing out a distinction between the "moral" and "ethical", ...

Hah! And you accuse me of black and white thinking. Good one. I'm not sure how to respond to that thread, as some impasse was reached in it.

My position towards the Trolley dilemma you proposed a couple of months ago (start one again as the turnover rate is pretty high here) was that no san...

So, you're basically saying that identity formation is motivated by optimistic thought or wishful thinking? And, those who look past the dissonance of...

Ok, I'll make it easy for you. I've long been bothered, as a wanna-be Stoic by this quote by Hume: The whole OP is just a *footnote to that quote. Do ...

I think, going along down this line of reasoning, that autism can be useful in some way to promoting the required fixation or focus that a philosopher...

Which ones? Are you thinking of Kant here or some other philosopher? It's my understanding that most philosophers nowadays are some cognitivists or ne...

Well, it's strange that you phrase things this way, as if autism is the supreme reason what drives a philosopher. But, then again, I'm pretty sure Wit...

Let me know what you're grappling with and I'll try and clarify. Thanks.

Well, yes. Reason under Hume's dictum is secondary to the emotions. It only serves as an instrumental faculty of our desires or wishes or passions.

I think it's most akin to learning that the free will is an illusion, according to Cioran, and, the only response to such a realization is the absurdi...

There's also the fact that the quote pretty much addresses the metaphysics of Cioran's philosophical system, which is fatalistic and deterministic. Ag...

I can't recall where I'm getting this; but, this quote brings out the prominence of the Will with respect to the world. In that, the Will is futile an...

If I remember correctly, that quote intended to convey the absurdity of existence. In the same manner as to how one ought to approach his philosophy.

Yes, great quotes. What a great man, Marcus Aurelius must have been.

Sounds like you found a niche in the shoe market. Lol, good luck!

Yeah, my issues with dopamine go pretty deep. As a child I had some pretty bad ADHD, as an adult now I have ADD-PI. I've tried numerous drugs to strai...

I certainly hope the Russians sold S-400's to the Iranians. The whole war on Iran strikes me as lunacy. One can imagine the intensification of the war...